The Sun. — London, England, 1836-02-18 00:00:00

__— PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock.. ................. 21E3'4 India Stock ‘2s(l! a per Cent. Red. g2!4 2. Ditto Bonds 3 on. South Sea Stock • 3 per Cent Cons. - a_4 per Cent - • Old Annuities Ditto Red ....... New Ditto New M.", per Cent Neu , : 1 per Cent — Exch. Bills, .£l,OOO l4 0 pm. Dank Long Annuities to expire Ditto 500 IS 0 0 pm. Jan. 5, :We 644 7-l( Ditto Small Oct. IV, 1&O 1(. 11 5-If Ditto Commercial .. Jan 5. Igt;r! Ditto Advertised _- rel Jan. 5, Isz,n — Bank Stork for Account — April 5, ISt' Jan. 5, 1870 - : Conscl.4 for Account Ornnium - ..... __ 1•1110 ES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Austrian Bonds — ! Peruvian Bonds .. ................ -- Belgian Bonds — ' Ditto Acc ount ......... . ..... Ditto Account . .. Brizi.lian Bonds .... WY l Ditto Account ................ ~ Ditto Account — Ditto New Bonds 9:1,,N Buenos Ayres Bonds — : Ditto A.ccount Ditto Acccunt ....... ........... Ditto , 3 per cent . 5.3 1 .ii14 Chillian Bonds — 'Prussia. Bonds — o Account — Russia n Bonds, 14•2..1 Ditt mbian Bonds — Ditt o Account ... ........... .... Colu Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 18421... .Ditto Account , Ditto Account — Dan:, h Bonds Ditto Account ....17,i Ditt.: Account .................. —. . . _. french, Greek Boods ................ e .... nch, 5 per cent —f. — c. Ditto Bonds, 14'.:5 ............. _____------- 34 per cent. —f —c. Ditto Account ............ ...... , per cent. —__ --- Exchange —l. —c. gexican Bonds. 5 j;_lr cent. ••• ..... Dutch, 2!.; per cent. ..... ...... z . )% N Ditto Account .......... ,••••••• _ ! Ditto Account Ditto 6 per cent........... .. _ Ditto Account ...... . . i Ditto, 5 per cent 10374 , 1!i Ditto Account kleapolitan ... PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share Hibernian Mining Company lO 3!; Unitr,d M ex i c an (issued at '2l. pm.) Ditto New Scrip .. Birmingn: , in and Derby Railway Company 5 11)4 1:1•4 1 Bristol and Zzeter Railway Company 2% 2 4% Commercial 81a...k wa ll Railwa y Com p any 2 . Great North of Ens land Railway Company 2 3% Great Western Railw:v Company lO 31'%e 3 1 2. 1% 2 • Hull and Selby Railway .•c."Pa ll v 5 7414 a Leeds and Manchester, Rai: 3Y Company Brighton Railway Company ... 5 13 17 !, Drighton (Rennie's) London and Blackwall Railway London and Gravesend Railway Company.... ..••• 1 2 1 7 4, London and Birmingham Railway Company 5O 125 Landon and Greenwich Railway Company. .......• 24 29% 9 London and Southampton Railway Company l5 24 5 3, 3 4 J ondon and Croydon Railway Company 2 3)4 3 London Grand Junction Railway Northern and Eastern Railway 3 North Midland Railway Company 5 Australasia Bank London and Westminster Bank l5 National Bank of Ireland lO Provincial Bank of Ireland ! th - National Provincial Bank of England Van DierrOn's Land Agricultural Company l7 4 58 44y4 25 iA Jl3.‘ ----- PItICE:.; OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, FEBRUARY 16 3 per Cent. Conso:_c ....... ...... _. 9011 Grand Canal Deb. 6 per cent. SSVi Ditto Reduced ... ..... .. - Ditto, 4 per cent 594 3' per Cent. Stock Ditto New, 1530 3 1 4 per Cent. Debentures...... 914 1 National Insurance Co - Bank Stock 2,',9 'City Debentures, 4 per cent... --- Royal Canal Stock 36 !Ballast Office Debentures, 4 Grand Canal Stock 22 4il per cent. - HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 52 minutes after 3. I Erening.,.... 7 minutes after THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING will be performed the Tragedy of THE PROVOST OF BRUGES. Bertulphe, Mr. Macready ; Thancmar, Mr. Warde; Bouchard, Mr. Cooptr—C9nstance, Miss E. Tree ; Ursula, Mrs. Vining. After which—VOL-AU-VENT. The Principal Characters by the Ravel Family, who will introduce some of their most extraordinary Performances. To conclude with—THE BRONZE HORSE. Yang, Mr. Templeton ; Tsing Sing, Mr. Gieubelei ; Tchin Kao, Mr. Seguin; Yanko, Mr. Duruset. Stella, Miss Forde; Lo Mangli, Miss Poole; Toajito, Miss H. Cawse; Peki, Miss Shirrefl: Stage Manager, 2klr. Cooper—Acting Manager, Mr. Yates. The Box .office is open ci2ily, under the direction of Mr. Parsons, of whom Private and Family liox!i, Stalls, and Places may be obtained. Boxes, '7s. ; Second Price, 3s. sd.—Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Second Price, 2s. Gallery, 2s. ; Second Price, Is.—Upper Gallery, Is. ; Second Price, 6d. HAMBURG, FEBRUARY 5, 1836. ON approach of the 24th INSTANT, HEINE BROTHERS, Contractors for the GREAT LOTTERIES of the State of Hamburg, beg to state that Tickets of the SIXTY SEVENTH HAMBURG GREAT LOTTERY, WAR RANTED UNDRAWN, will sell between the 12th and 23d instant, at Bancomarks 200, or 151., say Fifteen Pounds. The largest Prize of Bancomarks 100,000 net, will most probably be drawn on the 24th instant, it being a Premium for the FIRST DRAWN Prize of Bancomarks One Thousand. The publication of THE Sum NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o'clock. t„ ..., 44 ,_ .„ *f.-4 k.elit4t)r. "tnevl4__4. ~.~'~l ~. Z - f).e LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 1836. The Carlow Election Committee has been appointed :r rurol... PFIAEL'S advancement of two thousand pounds to ob tain the honour of a seat in Parliament. Now is the time for. a searching investigation into all the de tails of that system of corrupt intimidation, of which the poorer classes of voters in Ireland have been so long the victims. The people of England will not be content with the removal of a corner of the veil which screens enormities of the foulest complexion ; and we do not hesitate to affirm, that the Committee will not discharge its duty in the spirit of the British Constitution, if it de cline to investigate every one of the charges in Mr. VIGOR s's Petition, a copy of which will be found in another column. The Conservatives have clamoured for inquiry. Let them have it ; but let it be so full as to embrace an investigation of the mal-practices so fatal to the interests of a majority of the Irish electoral body. The question at issue is not whether Mr. O'CONNELL is innocent or guilty with respect to him self ; but whether Parliament will wilfully suffer a violation of the principle of purity of election. This is the sum and substance of the whole affair. Whether Mr. O'CONNELL be innocent—and we never for a moment suspected innocence—or whether he be guilty, the Committee will not be the less bound to investigate all charges, advanced in the evidence, against the system of which Mr. VIGORs complains, as prevalent among the Tory landlords in Ireland. On this point the country can entertain but one opinion. If to preserve inviolate the purity of elec tion be the real and only object of the appointment of the Carlow Election Committee—and constitutionally there can be none other—time inquiry must be pursued to the full extent of the evidence which may be brought forward, to prove the prevalence of a corrupt influence in Irish elections. All that has yet taken place on the question now at issue, plainly shows, that Tories look at it rather as an affair of party, than as a matter involving a great Constitutional principle. Such views are exceedingly erroneous. But the Committee will not permit itself to be influenced by such a narrow and distorted policy. It will sec in the affair of the Carlow Election an opportunity of inquiring into the real state of Parliamentary representation in the sister country, which it would he criminal to overlook. It will sift the evidence on all sides to the bottom ; and it will be careful not to conclude its labours, before esta blishing the truth or falsehood of the allegations of fact put forth in Mr. VIGORS's petition. This Gentle man, who states that himself and his family are exten sive Protestant landed proprietors in three counties in Ireland—and whose services in Parliament during three years, as the representative of Carlow, have, to our own knowledge, obtained for him the confidence of the Reformers in this country—asserts that the Tory land lords in the county of Carlow alone, have forcibly driven two hundred and forty-nine poor families, inclu ding three hundred and sixteen widows and orphans, from their tenements, for daring to vote for the liberal candidates ! Lord BERESEORD, Colonel BRUEN, and and Colonel LATOUCIIE, are the most distinguished names in VIGORS'S list of Irish tyrant. The con duct of these choice specimens of Irish Toryism is principally alluded to in the following paragraph of the i petition " That during and sub sequent l y to t h e l as t three contested elections for the representation and of the county of Carlow, viz. in December, 1832, January . and June, 1835, the most scandalous corruption and l in a huir s lan intimidation on the part of the Tory landlords and of 'tailed in the said county againstee: of Parliament have pre est and independent but poor electors; that during the last few years thousands of the Catholic tenantry and ancient residentew labour!ng families by political party spirit and religious persecution have been , o a f nd , P i Lo w te s sta an nt d s expelled from their residences and ans substituted in their place ; that hundre ds TILE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, „ - orphans have been excluded in this wicked and un christian proscription and persecution; that by the fear of similar persecutions numbers of the electors have been coerced to give their votes for the Tory candidates, who would have otherwise notoriously supported the Reform can didates; that persecution by the cost and terror of distraints for rent and other legal processes has been extensively re sorted to for political and party purposes; and that appalling misery, dissensions, heartburnings, and all sorts of crime, have been, and still are, the unhappy consequences of these illegal, unconstitutional, and cricked proceedings." This is a much stronger case for inquiry than the affair between O'CoNNEI.L, and lt ruAEr. ; and yet the organs of the Tories are up in arms against the Committee's proposing a question which may im plicate the character of a Protestant landlord. "It is felt," says the Post, with a triumphant sneer, " that the artifice of mixing up the conduct of some of the Protestant landlords of the county of Carlow with this investigation will not do." Will our Contemporary inform us by whom novel feeling is en tertained ? Not by the Honourable Member for Greenock surely, though mentioned in connection with it ; for the whole purport of his motion is to mix up one affair with the other by extending the inquiry. The Times, too, with that unprincipled effrontery for which it is so notorious, treats " the asserted wrongs of widows and orphans," through the oppression of Tory landlords, as part of the " rampart of multifarious rubbish" with which Mr. O'CONNELL sought to encircle himself. The details of the suffer ingg of orphans and widows at the hands of Tory landlords are, no doubt, rubbish in the opinion of the unprincipled scribes of Printing-house Square ; bui the people of England are not so dead to the humaner feelings—their consciences arc not so seared against correct impressions of right and wrong—as not to spurn with disgust and indignation every attempt to screen such enormities from Parliamentary scrutiny. But the Tories shall not escape the ordeal which they prepared for Mr. O'CONNELL. The fate of HAMAN awaits them, however involuntary may be the suicidal act. The following is Mr. WALLACE'S motion, which he will this day bring before the House of Commons : _ " That his Majesty be graciously pleased immediately to issue a Royal Commission to proceed to the county of Carlow, there to inquire--lst. Into the whole facts and circumstances set forth in the petition presented to this House on the 15th current, by Nicholas Aylward Vigors, Esquire, and especially into those parts of the said petition which relate to the perse cution and ejectment of the Parliamentary electors of the said county therein referred to, by removing them from their homes and possessions, to the ruin of themselves and their families. 2d. Whether, in the existing state of political excitement in the county of Carlow, the persons, properties, and suffrages of the Parliamentary electors should not be protected in future by voting by Ballot. 3d. Whether corruption, coercion, and intimidation, through the actual ejection of electors, or threats to that effect, ought not in future to form legitimate grounds of inquiry before Election Committees. 4th. Whether any and what measures would best secure the purity of election and independence of the electors of the county of Carlow, and to report their opinion, with the evidence, to this House, touch ing all the matters herein referred to." The House cannot, in justice to the electoral body in Ireland, refuse its concurrence to this motion ; and as it will be impossible for the Committee to act with out a Report of the disclosures which shall be made before the Commission, the whole will form the sub ject of one and the same inquiry—namely, how far the intimidation practised against the Irish Catholic te nantry, by Tory landlords, is detrimental to the purity of Parliamentary election. In the history of such transaction, the affair between Messrs. O'CONNELL and RAPHAEL can form no more than a brief episode. Now is the time for every Member of the House of Commons, who really deplores the tyranny of which the Irish Catholics have for centuries been the victims, to exert himself in their behalf, by pushing forward the inquiry. The details of the corrupt influence practised against one constituency, will form an index to the history of all the rest. Those who are ready to discard the rights of the people—to treat the sufferings widows - 1 s_‘....r.o.hhish2: tary privilege—are beneath the contempt of honest men. To hear the Tinzes talk about inconsistency, would extort a laugh from a stoic. For a journal which in stantaneously renounced, not one or two points of its creed, but the. entire system of its political faith, to lecture others on what it presumes to be deviations from consistency, shews to what a pitch the power of impudence may be screwed up. The great organ of the Tories must be hard driven indeed for a subject of attack on Ministers, when it is obliged to look for one in the superiority of their pre sent measure for the relief of the Dissenters over that which Lord GREY'S Government proposed. If we are to adopt the logic employed in this charge, we must condemn every Statesman who has advanced a single step beyond any Administration of which he ever formed a part. And where, may we ask, shall we find this lag-behind policy so violently—so furi ously denounced, as in the columns of that journal which hallooed on the reformers upon Lord GREY, until the " pressure from without" scared him from the helm ? The very policy which it urged upon Ministers at that time, even menacing them in its usual bullying tone, if they rejected its recommenda tion—that same policy when adopted now, does it lay hold on with characteristic duplicity, for the purpose of insinuating against them a charge of inconsistency The Bill which Lord JOIIN RUSSELL has intro duced into Parliament for the relief of the Dissenters is undoubtedly more liberal than any hitherto proposed. But why is it so Not because the Noble Lord did not think when he brought forward his former mea sure, that the Dissenters were entitled to be put on a footing of perfect equality, as to civil privileges, with the Members of the Church. He declared to the De putation, appointed by the London Dissenters to confer with him on the subject, that it was the earnest wish of the Government to give the Dissenters the most complete redreas of all their grievances ; but that a Marriage Bill, founded upon that principle, had not the least chance of passing the House of Lords. We see, therefore, that the principles on which Lord Jo urr RUSSELL and his colleagues are now acting have undergone no change. They are now what they have ever been— the sincere friends of the Dissenters ; and we are happy to find that the Dissenters are as sincerely at tached to them. From a perfect reliance on the good intentions of the MELBOURNE Administration towards them, the Dissenters, though, as all the world knows, anxious enough to get rid of their grievances, have forborne to embarrass the Government by pressing their claims at a time when that Government had so much to struggle with in the factious opposition of its natural enemies, the Tories. That time is now, thank GOD, passed away, and the Dissenters will reap the benefit of their confidence, and their patience. The Municipal Reform has not only given them a great . addition of power as a body, but it has given a tone to public opinion which has strengthened the Government, and which, we doubt not, will enable it to carry through the present Mar riage Bill, and other measures of an equally bold and liberal character, in spite of all the opposition which can be raised against them. The Tzegfdi the Portfolio contains the copy of a very secret despatch from (i.,:oo;:: Pozzo DI BORGO to Prince NESSELRODE, dated Dec. 14, 1828, which, were Parliament not sitting, we should gladly lay before our readers. It appears from this do cument, as well as from those already published, that Prince METTERNICH was the on l y states man in Europe who, at that time, fully eotnprehended the insidions designs of Russia, a►►il endeavoured to counteract them. DI Bo P. GO is elllaged that the schemes of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg should be detected by the Austrian Minister ; and only derives hopes of the C zA R'S success fl om the obstinate blindness of the Duke of WELLINGTON, and the dotard policy of the millions of CHARLES X. As the authenticity of these docu ►nents is now fully established—for both the Duke of WELLINGTON and Count MA TuszEvrc have declared Clem to be correct and faithful transcripts of the ort .ginals—the British public cannot become sufficiently acquainted with the important disclosures contained in them. A majority of one hundred and forty four of the Members present in the House of Colunons last night, decided in favour of Mr. EWA RT'S Bill for allowing Prisoners on trial for felony, and other ca pital crimes, the assistance of Counsel. The Bill was accordingly read a second time, and will pass the House of Commons ; though its fate in the Lords' is extremely doubtful. The principle of the pre sent system of English law is to protect every thing a man possesses, but his life. Breathe but a syllable against his reputation, and he can, if he pleases, retain an hundred Counsel to plead in his defence ; but boldly attack his life— charge him with felony, and the law places him at once at your mercy. Wealth and fame are every thing in England ; life only is of no value. To refer in illustration to one of the most ordinary occurrences imaginable :—lt took a Jury eight days, assisted by nearly half of the most distinguished Members of the English Bar, a host of witnesses, and all the mad Doctors in London, to prove Lady KIRKWALL a lunatic—though the fact, after all, was hardly ques tionable. Now, had the charge preferred against her Ladyship been one affecting her life, and were she not, as a Peeress, placed beyond the jurisdiction of the ordinary Criminal Courts, we would venture to pledge ourselves, that the self-same Jury would consider eight hours too long to deliberate upon the question of her guilt or innocence. The law is ;proverbially slow in everything but hanging or expatriating. Twenty years is a very short time for a decision in the Court of Chancery ; twenty minutes is long enough for any de cision in the opinion, and frequently according to the practice, of the legal functionaries at the Old Bailey. No time is to be lost when the services of Jack Ketch are to be put in requisition. It is im possible not to feel astonished sometimes at the intuitive faculty of comprehending evidence which Judges in criminal cases arc apt to display. Submit the most trifling matter which regards the settlement of pro perty—the legal interpretation to be put upon a clause in a will—the defining of a boundary Act—or the re dress to be obtained for the most trivial species of in jury—and their Lordships cannot decide without hearing Counsel pro and con—without consulting their learned brethren on a number of reserved points of law—and without hearings, and re-hearings, and bandying and re-bandying the affair from Court to Court, and - so on till doomsday, provided you can satisfy the cravings of your attorney, and defray the costs of action. But ask the same Judges for a verdict which shall send your neighbour to New South Wales, if not to the gallows, and their Lordships will see all the bearings of the case in five minutes. Place the accused in the dock, and the whole affair is settled. In one case out of five, the Judges have virtually passed sentence upon a criminal before a word of evidence is heard against him. It is a fiction i❑ law that the Judge is counsel for the accused ; and it is indeed a fiction. Where the Crown is the prosecutor the Judge is rarely found to differ in opinion from the Attorney-General. The annals of the last and the preceding reigns are full of precedents on this head. In the trials of trio-I TT, ~IDMfOUTtU, and UA - STrfLii:Ao,tlle judges were the principal Crown prosecutors;-and it was proved in the case of JOSEPH GERRALD, that LORD CHIEF JUSTICE CLERK pronounced sentence upon the accused several days before the commence ment of the trial—which sentence was subsequently adopted by the Bench, with the omission of whipping at a cart's tail r. We are glad to find the present law-officers of the Crown among the most strenuous advocates of the improvement which this Bill will effect in the crimi nal judicature of our country. By an article, which we extract elsewhere from a Morning Contemporary, we observe with pleasure that there is every prospect of justice being at length done to the third class of claimants for losses in Denmark. The Danish case stands entirely on its own grounds—it is unique : it differs totally from French, Spanish, or any other claims, and no other precedent can be drawn from it than this, that when the Government by any act of its own, contrary to the laws and usages of civilized nations, comes into possession of a large sum of money, and thereby causes, by means of the retaliation on the part of the aggressive Foreign Powers, losses to its own innocent subjects who happen, from the nature of the locality, such as the close sea of the Baltic, to be at the mercy of the aggressed—the Government so having caused such loss by its own previous wrong, is bound to in demnify its own subjects, and not to make a profit by their losses. This is the pith of the argument, and if justice were not done, the case would afford a prece dent for the Minister of the day, at any time that he was momentarily pressed to provide money, to advise the seizing of some 300 French, Dutch, or other fo i eign ships and cargoes lying in the Thames ; and as this step would provoke reprisals on British property, to condemn the foreign property in anticipation of the war which might ensue, reckless of the consequence to British subjects. We are induced at the same time to draw the atten tion of Parliament to the consideration, in how far it would not be advisable to lay down the principle, that all extraordinary expenditure should be provided for by loans, and that all surplus revenue should be applied to such wholesome modification of taxation as, by relie v i ng the taxed, would in the en d i ncrease t h e amount brouolibt into the Treasury. The subject is brought to our notice, when we reflect on the possible large sum which the new houses of Parliament and the National Gal , lery may require. These are outlays as much for the benefit of future generations as for the present and it would be fairer to spread the outl a y over a pe riod of years, than at a time when we are burthened with the expenses occasioned by the debt contracted before our time—when the existing taxation presses more on the wants than on the means of the com munity—and when the money can be raised at little more than three per cent., while to a large majority of the tax-payers, money is worth double that rate. We hope, therefore, that Mr. HUME, or some other public-spirited Member will take up this subject, as we believe it agrees with the views Mr. HUME has generally expressed. candidate the only F AFP TION AT MAL TON , IN THE ROOM OF TIC: LORD CHAN:, - 0,1..pk.—0n last Frid a y morning, the e l ectors of Mahon, after the usual prelitiiinatics, prpee:ded t o c h oose a representative in Parliament for the borough in plac e o f Eii r to A the ge W sh o i o re lsa w ck a . s Childers, put formerly 31. r, ;141 t 341 rid in nomination. He was PrPPDO e 4 b y M r. Piglop, A gentle mw a a s n s o e f c o d n i d s s e e d n t b i y n g m p r r , i p il l . e s , all able an 4 liberal s p eec h , an 4 de The late enormous deralcß,tions the fund s o f two of the largest City charities appear to rpflect lant littl e credit upon the Governors as men of business, SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) (FROM LLOYD'S.) DEAL, FEB' 17.—Wind N. N. W., blowing hard, in squalls, through the day, and still continues.—The Hythe, Drayner, for Bombay, sailed this morning, with loss of anchor and chain. —Arrived from the River, the Reliance, Luckie, for Deme rara ; William Henry Angus, Wilkins, for ; Meridian, Harding, for New York, with loss of anchor and chain, remain ing with the outward-bound, who are riding mostly with two anchors ahead. PonTsmouTu, FEB. 17. —Wind N. to N. W.—Sailed the Mountaineer, Sowerby, for Demerara. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 16. —Wind S. W. FALMOUTH, FEB. 16.—Wind N. W.— Arrived the Pearl, Nleede, from Figueira ; Eclipse packet, from Lisbon, sailed 7 th last. ; Dispatch, Cumming, from Charente. Sailed the Transit, Wrightson, for Lisbon, Oporto, and Cadiz. MARGATE, FEB. 17.—Arrived the Speculator, Bishop, from Cork. RAMSGATE, FEB. 17.—Arrived the Hercules, Wilson, from Cork. DOVER, FEB. 17.—Arrived off, the William Ash, Rendall, from Charente. Bumf., FEB. 17.—Arrived the Mercy, Beazley, from Demerara ; Azores packet, Williams, from St. Michael's ; Vintage, Williams, from Oporto. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 16.—Arrived the Juliet, Wilson, from Canton —sailed Sept. 18, Anjer Nov. 4, and St. Helena Ist ult. ; Intrepid, Stewart, from Demerara ; Santherner, Glover, from New Orleans, after being aground.—Off port, the Hec tor, Post, from Mobile ; Tagus, --, from Lisbon. CLYDE, FEB. 15.—Arrived the Mercator, Mitchell, from Pictou. The Traveller, Cockburn, was run down, off Mundsley, yes terday; only one of the crew saved. The Nancy, .Goldsworth, of Beccles, and the Catharine, Kelt, of Perth, were ashore yesterday near Wells. The Fanny, Oliver, from Liverpool to Boston, was on shore yesterday near Hoppisly ; crew saved. The Mediterranean, from Liverpool to Newcastle, sunk in the Bay of Luke, 12th inst. The Royal Victoria (steamer) was on shore near Leith, 15th inst. ; cargo discharging. The Majestic, of Sunderland (timber-laden), water-logged and abandoned, was boarded, 6th inst., in lat. 43., long. 28. THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY .) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Our arrivals this morning are the Lisbon mails, by the Eclipse, sailed on the 7th February; the French, Ostend, and Dutch mails are due. We have ship letters from Canton, Demerara, and New Orleans. From the Canton Papers, received at the North and South American Coffee House, to the 9th September, we give the following : COM► ' ERCIAL REMARKS: IMPORTS.—Broad cloths continuo without demand; in cotton, few transactions have occurred during the week, and the market is without animation ; while many of the holders of small lots are ready to sell at reduced rates. Cotton goods continue in steady demand. The dealers in cotton yarn are indifferent about buying at present, being under an impression that heavy supplies are close at hand. Bengal Opium has continued to advance, but sales have been limited. In Malwa several time sales have been made, but few cash transactions; our quotations are firm ; 660 or 665 dollars per chest, cash ; and 680 to 690, at a fort night or a month. Rice has advanced, owing to the dry weather. " EXPORTS : Raw Silk, Nankin—Most of the Tsatlee now in Canton has we understand been purchased, and prices have advanced to our quotations ; for superior qualities 430 to 440 per pecul is demanded. " The following notice is hanging outside the gate of the Factory formerly occupied by the East India Company's Supercargo : " ' Notice is hereby given, that the Hon. Company's agents are ready to receive applications for advances on bills of ex change, secured by consignments to England of tea or raw silk, to the extent of two-third 3 of their value, at the rate of 4s. Bd. per dollar—the goods to be shipped on or before the 31st December, 1835. Twenty-five per cent. of such ad vances will be made in cash, and the residue in bills on the Supreme Government of India, at (210) Sicca rupees per hundred (100) Spanish dollars.—J. N. Daniel and T. C. Smith, Agents to the East India Company.' " THE FUNDS. Consols opened at the closing prices of yesterday, 919 for the Account, and 91i for Money ; Exchequer Bills, 18 20 ; India Bonds, 35 ; Bank Stock, 216 217 ; India Stock, 2551 256 k. The Foreign Market is at present without animation. Spa nish Active Bonds, 47i i—the leaving off price ; Portuguese, 831 • Three per cents, 53} ; Colombian, 324 33 ; Mexican, 361 371 f ; Dutch two-and-a-half per cents, 554 ; Five per cents, 103-1 3 - 1044. HALF-PAST ONE. We stated yesterday in our City article that the British and French Governments were about to advance a loan to the Queen of Spain, and which was at present under considera tion. We can now state that the above report is gaining ground, and that a leading capitalist in the city is to make an advance of two millions sterling to the Spanish Govern ment, under the guarantee of England and France, and that the negotiations are now so far advanced, that it is expected they will be brought to a conclusion in a few days. We do not hear as vet of the arrivaL nf-thn Renew - nail stormy weather which prevailed during yesterday and last night ; in consequence of which both the British and Foreign Markets remain stationary in their prices, with little or no business doing. _ _ Consols ba;e been during the morning at 911 i for the Account, and 91 1 1 for Money ; Exchequer Bills, 18 20 ; India Bonds, 3 5 ; Bank Stock, 216 217 ; India Stock, 2553- 2561. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active Bonds 478 A ; Por tuguese, 83+ Three per Cents., 531-; Colombian, 32i 33 ; Mexican, 361 371 ; Dutch Two and aHalf per Cents, 551 4. The Share Market continues to improve. Consols f or th e A ccount, 912 THREE 0' CL 0 CB. DANISH CL A ims.—Th ere i s a t l engt h some pros pect, it seems , that the remaining classes of Danish Claims will be disposed of. Those arising from book debts are, as is well known, already provided for ; the claims for goods are recognised as legitimate ones ; and with respect to the third class, those arising from ships and cargoes, the parties have been instructed to prepare such a statement of the case as will establish an equity in their favour, and they will then also be submitted to the consideration of Parliament. That so simple an affair as this appears to be in all its bearings, should have been so long in making itself really compreh en d e d b y t h ose w i t h whom the redress lay, is a stigma on a nation distinguished above all others for its habits of business.—Times. • Accordi n g to accounts from Milan, the rise in the price o f silk is really extraordinary. Within a few days it has augmented from 25 to 30 per cent., and the finer qua lities even 40. Higher rates still are expected, as the ma nufacturers of Lyons, Zurich, and Germany, cannot get silk enough to execute the orders they have received from New York. It is whispered in high life that an eminent indivi dual, long distinguished for his taste in the arts, and for his li terary attainments, has, during a long life, kept a diary of all the remarkable occurrences, both public and private, relating to the sphere in which he moves ; and that it is possible the re sult of his observations may appear at no distant date under the title of Liber Veritatis. A paragraph has appeared, stating that the bishop of Norwich was married to a Catholic wife, and that the lady had a confessor of her own creed in the house. The Bishop of Norwich has been a widower for the last twelve years, and was married to a sister (a Protestant) of the late Lord Castle coote, one of the most violent ultra- Protestants in Ireland during his lifetime. LONDON AND GREENWICH RAILWAY.- About two miles and a half of this splendid undertaking are now completed, and a train of seven of the Company's car riages are making experimental trips ten times each way daily, starting from the Spa-road, Bermondsey, and ending at Deptford, which is performed in six minutes. SWANS.-When the frost was pretty severe in the beginning of January, a flight of swans, eleven in number, made their appearance at Loch Kendar, in the immediate neighbourhood of Ncwabbey—a beautiful sheet of water, fed by springs, and the mists and rains that ooze through the fis sures of the giant Criffel. Sweetheart Abbey, when entire, looked beautifully out on this sequestered lake. Whether these birds belonged to the tribe called wild swans, no one seems to know. A few years ago a similar group visited the shores of a parish not far from Dumfries—all of which were attacked, killed, and sold for what they would bring. The in. habitants of Castle Douglas would as soon part with Carlin wet k itself as the stately birds that give animation to the mono tony of still life, breed on its fairy islets, and browse along its shores. _Dumfries Courier. Salmon -fishing commenced in Scotland for the pre sent season, on Monday, the Ist instant. The first importa tion into London from the famed estuary of Tay, was on Tues day afternoon, by the Dundee, Perth, and London Shipping Company's smack Elbe, Captain Martin, an experienced na vigator, which arrived at Hore's-wharf, after a quick passage from the flourishing port of Dundee. She had on board 26i boxes of salmon, the first imported from Scotland this season. ALARMING FIRE.--- Y esterday morning, about two o'clock, the family of Mr. Eagle, residing at No. 40, Milton straet, Boston-square, New-road, Marylebone, were thrown into the greatest excitement by an alarm of fire in a bedroom occupied by a gentleman named Oliver. It appeared that the above-named gentleman had retired to rest a short time pre vious, and left a candle burning by the side of the bed ; i n a '44. time afterwards the room was filed with smoke and an unusual heat. Ito rushed out of bed an d raise d an alarm, when several policemen who were on duty near the spot ran to his agAiStanP , 4 4 !d qfter ogrls l 4eF 4 l* e 3 terliqni! suc ceeded in arresting the progress of the fames,es ! not, however, mail every article of furniture and wearing - app are l t h e r oom contained was entirely &greyed, The loss falls on the County Fire (Moe. 4 .-. a n inPFRdil4 short wape pt time si engines, with several rerPqn, iYerP in attendance, but for t unate l y the as sistance of Only two of theM was required. The fire w as de „sioned by a spark from the candle falling on the bed-curtain. No n e of Nr. 4affie's family sustained any ininiry, PARLIAMENTARY SUMMAR Y. The LORDS did not meet yesterday, it being Ash-Wed nesday. Iu the COMMONS, after some business of no public interest, Colonel Thompson gave notice that when the Bill for the Commutation of Tithes in England and Wales was brought forward, he would move as an amendment, that one half of the composition be a money rent, and one half a corn rent. Among other petitions presented last night, was one from Cork against tithes. Mr. Hume moved for certain returns respecting the state of the registration in Ireland, and the number and qualifi cation of the electors. Respectino. the Carlow Election, Mr. Wallace gave no ti ce th a t h e s h ou ld this day move for a Commis sion to proceed to Carlow to ascertain whether the allegations in Mr. \rigors' petition, presented on Monday, were true ; and to report whether the electors for the county of Carlow ought not to have the protection of the ballot. Mr. En art moved the second reading of the Prisoners' Defence by Counsel Bill, which was eventually sent to a Select Committee--an amend ment that the Bill be read a second time this day six months, moved by Sir E. Wilmot, being negatived by a majority of 144. So great is the demand for seats to witness the per formance of The Historical Records of Music to-morrow evening, at Drury-lane, that the theatrical orchestra will be added to the pit. SINGULA R NAMES or M.P.'s, 1836.—(From Ackerman's Spanish Magazine, The Instructor.)—A Kirk, a Church, two Speiers (Query, how Speirs is pronounced, if Spears ?), a Bell, Chaplin, and a Clerk. A King, a Power, a Law, a Leader, three Grants, and a Knight. A Fort, a Wall, and a Trench. A Hall, a Tenent, four Stewarts, one Butler, a Porter, and Cookes—a Guest, Tapps, and Knocks. A Longfield, a Freshield, two Miles, East, with Sandon. A Miller, two Hills, North, and South—a Hutt, a Cave, three Woods, a Forrester, two Parkers, and a Sheppard. A Lake, a Loch, Roche, and a Seal. A Hoy, with a Crewe. A Wilde, Hogg, a Young, Fox, two Bruens, a Roebuck, a Pusey, and a Wolfe. A Fowler, Tooke, a Finch, Hawke, Heron, Parott, and a Martin. A Wyse, Marshall, with Manners. A Carter, Dobbin, Hay. A Cartwright, seven Smiths, two Turners, two Coopers, a Collier, two Chapmen. Two Walkers, with two Hopes. A Bodkin, Sharpe, and Blunt, Poyntz. A Plum, tree, with Bowes and Pollen. A Potter and Clay, Pryme, French, Fellowes. Pease and Rice, with threo Prices. A Lemon, with three Peels. A Ward, with Mangles, and a Patten. Last week Sir Robert Graham, ex-Baron of the Court of Exchequer, who is now in his eighty-seventh year, but hale and hearty, and in full enjoyment of all his faculties, took the oaths in the Court of King's Bench before Lord Denman, required by the Act lately passed, empowering re tired Judges to assist in trying prisoners at the Central Court of the Old Bailey. On Sunday morning a turf-boat, in ballast, from this city, on her way to Beigh Castle, was upset in a squall, and, awful to relate, 13 persons perished in the wreck ! The owner of the boat, and his son and daughter, were among the sufferers.—Limerick Times. A shocking murder was perpetrated on Tuesday evening week, in the parish of Whaplode Drove. A servant, named Wilcox, was on that evening coming home with his master's team from Wisbech, when he was way-laid and mur dered. Next morning his body was found in a ditch. The unfortunate man has left a pregnant wife and eight children to lament his untimely end. According to accounts from Milan, the rise in the price of silks is really extraordinary. Within a few days it has augmented from 25 to 30 per cent., and the finer qualities even 40. Higher rates still are expected, as the manufacturers of Lyons, Zurich, and Germany cannot get silk enough to exe cute the orders they have received from New York. CURIOUS MISTAKE.—At a village not 103 miles from Linton, a lady went to church to return thanks after her confinement. The Rev. Gentleman when he came to the words " 0 Lord save this woman thy servant ;" said " 0 Lord save this lady thy servant ;" the clerk instantly re plied, "As her ladyship putteth her trust in thee, 0 Lord" which caused a smile throughout the congregation. —Lincoln Gazette. LOSS OF THE OAK PACKET, SCARBOROUGH. —The Oak Packet, which has been a regular trader for se veral years, between Scarborough and London, was lost on her passage a few days ago, having on board a general cargo, con sisting of oats and furniture, and other valuable property. The crew were saved in the boat, with the exception of the mate, Mr. Ditchborn, of Scarborough, who, it is our painful duty to relate, met with a watery grave.—Lincoln Gazette. HIGH-BRED.--At Holton, near Wragby, a hen has just brought off a b roo d o f n i ne chickens, which were hatched in a crow's nest at the top of a fir-tree, forty feet in height.—Lincoln Gazette. THE NATIONAL DEBT.—The well-pensioned commander of the old ship of Fools imagine that our country is enriched by Taxation I Let them " tell it to marines"— but never attempt to instil such a doctrine into the minds of our experienced and patriotic seamen, who well know that they can never improve the sailing of a water-logged ship by adding more weight to her cargo. Perhaps the following attested facts will prove alike interesting to all parties— George 111. came to the throne in 1760, and found the Na tional Debt 120,000,000/. ; he reigned 59 years, and left the National Debt 820,000,000/.-700,000,000/. more than at the accession ; increasing on the whole period about 36,0001. per day, or nearly 231. per minute ! At the beginnir2i.mf r.e.g,"2,Posb,lnt,"ooo/. Our correspondent in Germany, who is usually well informed, sends us the following particulars from Frank fort, dated Feb. 7. According to letters from St. Peters burgh, which are worthy of full credit, the Emperor Nicholas intends to visit Warsaw in the spring, and thence to proceed direct to the army of the south. The same news is given in the letters from Warsaw and Berlin. We learn that the southern army has already been reinforced by troops from the interior, and will receive further reinforcements from the northern provinces and the Asiatic fortresses. All the ac counts agree in stating that the guerillas, which have been formed within these few months in Lithuania, are of small importance. They are confined within narrow limits. They have advanced, but it is not true that they have received any succour by sea.—Courrier Beige. MOST HORRIBLE MURDER.—It i s our painful duty to record one of the most horrible enormities ever con summated by the hand of man. This morning about eight o'clock the wife of John Cowen, a cabinet maker, living in Walnut-street, a few doors above Columbia-street, returned from market, and a quarrel ensued between her and her hus band, concerning some change, and he becoming enraged, seized an axe and struck her on the head, and completely crushed one side of it; seeing the effect of his blow upon his wife, the wretch assaulted his two children, who were shriek ing at her side; and almost entirely severed the head of one from its bsdy, and with a blow despatched the other, Th e eldest was about four years of age, and the younger probably two. The murderer instantly fled, and had proceeded over Mill Creek Bridge, about three and a half miles from the scene of his crime, when he was overtaken by the officers and conducted to the jail, followed by an immense orowd, who were so exasperated that they would no doubt have Lynched him had he not been hurried off on horseback to the prison. On his arrest he stated that ho had murdered his wife ; and he knew ho should be hung for it, and he killed his children, because he was determined to leave no offspring to be dis. graced by his crime. We have never seen our community in a state of greater excitement than that occasioned by the hor_ rors we have described. The murderer is a man about 2$ years of age, medium height, dark hair and eyes, high cheek bones, aquiline nose, narrow chin, a red scar on his left cheek, and a countenance on the whole unmarked by any expression of evil, but, on the contrary, of rather an amiable appear ance. Cowen was first overhauled by Mr. S. Lippincott, and drew a knife from his pocket, but immediately gave it up, and surrendered himself, on being threatened with a blow from a stick by Mr. L. ; the two officers, Messrs. Madison and Brooks, accompanied by another person, arrived at the in stant, and he was secured.—Cincinnati Post. SUSPECTED MURDER.—For some days past con siderable excitement has existed the neighbourhood of Labe ham, Staines, and Chertsey, in consequence of the extraor dinary and mysterious disappearance of a young man, about twenty years of age, named John Jones, son of a highly-re spectable farmer in Berkshire. The circumstances are as fel low :—The unfortunate young man, who was on a visit for a few days at the residence of John Bennett, Esq., 7, Welbeck street, Cavendish-square, left that gentleman's house, about eight o'clock on Thursday morning last, with a cart drawn by a very valuable chesnut horse, for the purpose of convey ing some coals to Mr. Bennett's country residence at Chert sey, Surrey. Although he did not return that night, no fears for his safety were en t er t a i ne d b y h i s friends until Friday after noon, when a letter was received by Mr. Bennett from the lock-keeper on the Middlesex side of Chertsey-bridge, in forming him that a cart, h av i ng his name and addressthere on, had that morning been found in the lock, Me. Ben nett's nephew and two friends immediately proceeded to Lale ham, where, on inquiry, ascertaining that in the cart had been found J ones ' s hat, arid a parcel containi ng refr es h_ ments, which he had taken with him for the journey they in stantly set a lar ge num b er of men to drag the river, and the ponds in the ne i g hb ourhood; but, notwithstanding upwards of 20 persons have been daily engaged in s o d o i ng , na traces of g either the un f ortunate young man, the horse,or the coals h ave , up to yest er d ay, been discovered, On Inquiry at the wharf from whence Jones had to fetch the coals, it has boo n ascer tained th a t h e l eft with them shortly before 10 o'clock the same morning, and might have arrived at destination bcfo o'clock th e same d ay; and what renders; the oCcurr,nce m'eos2t mysterious is the fact that, on examining t cart, d it was dis covered th a t th e h oo k s of both the cechm unbroken, whi c h wou ld not Lave been thec g ase an had tu tge s horse broken l oose f rom t l ie cart, and that therefore it must have been unfastened by some person. The cart was first discovered by the look-keeper, between 7 and 8 o'clock on Friday morn - ing, Jones is entitled, on his attaining his majority, to pro perty valued at a considerable amount, and therefore no sus picions are entertained that he has absconded with the horse, but It is strongly feared he has met a violent death. A SPIDER THIEF. --The following anecdote is from a French work :—" M. F___...., of Saief Omer, laid on the chimney-piece of his chamber, elle evening on going to bed, a small gold, whose head represented a AY. Neat 4ay M. F. would have taken his piji from the place where he had put it, but the trirko 104 disappeared- -A servant-maid, 1 . 0 .1 q t j .:l ri qiiiY b,cen in his service a few days, was sole ly Sull'eeto 9f h4vlug - carried Off the pin, And sent away. But at length Mons. F.' s sister w i tting up some curtains, watt extremely surprised to . And the lost pin suspended 4oin the ceiling in a spide'si web. And thus Ivo the disappearance of the bijou explai ne d z—A spider, deceived by the figure o f t h e fly, which the presented, fiat drawn it into COCKERYIOUT II ELECTION• RETURN OF MR. HORSMAN. In consequence of the retirement of F. L. B. Dyke!, Esq., from the representation of Cockermotith, two candi dates appeared in the field—Edward Horsman, Esq., of Edinburgh, an d Ri c h ar d M oorsom , E sq ., o f Ai rey Hill. near Whitby. Mr. Moorsom finding his prospects of success not so encouraging as his friends wished, retired from the contest on Wednesday. Mr. Horsman having been pro posed and seconded, and no other candidate appearing, that gentleman was accordingly declared duly elected. Mr. Hors aan then addressed the electors and non-elec tors of the borough, at great length. His speech seems to stamp him as a man of the movement—as an accession to those Hon. and truly useful Members who, belonging to the party of the people, recognize no limit to Reform, short of that which will permanently secure the greatest number of men the largest amount of happiness. EAST INDIA HOUSE. Yesterday a Special Court of the Proprietors of intlift Stock was held at the India [louse, for the purpose of proceeding to a ballot, demanded by the Court of Directors, upon the follow ing resolution, passed on a show of hands at the last General Court : That in the opinion of this Court, the case of every common " der and Officer heretofore employed by or under the Company in " their Maritime service, who will make a declaration that he had " not abandoned the service, or relinquished it for the purpose of " engaging in business, and that his interest has been affected by " the discontinuance of the Company's trade (agreeably to the 7th " sec. of the Act of the 3d and 4th of William IV., cap. 85), is sueli " a special case as entitles a Commander or Officer to a Pensive or " Gratuity, notwithstanding he may not have been actually in the " service of the Company within five years antecedent to the 28th " of August, 1833. " And that the Court of Directors be requested to gr an t Pen " sions or Gratuities to special cases, in conformity - with the fore " r going decla ra ti on , accor di ng to the scale, and irom the period " heretofore granted to other Commanders and Officers, their " Widows and Children, subject to a redui'Aion of one-fourth of the 14 amount thereof." The ballot commenced at eleven o'clock, and closed at six o'clock in the evening, w13 , 1n the glasses were delivered over to the scrutineers. M. Wallace and Mr. Fielder being ap pointed for the Court of Directors, and Mr. Weeding and Mr. T. Burnie for the excluded officers. At seven o'clock the scrutineers raurned into Court, and the resolution upon w hich the ball;`, was taken having been read, they reported that it apptared on the scrutiny that there were_ For ihe question 227 Against it Majority against the resolution -25 Captain SHEPHERD, the presiding Director, then declared the resolution, recommending the Couit of Directors to grant compensation, &c., to the excluded officers, carried in the ne gative. The Court theeadjourned. 'ARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. IST OF THE A Who voted in L favour ofhe second reading of Mr. Eart's Bill for Allowing the P r i v il ege o f Counsel to Prisoners in Criminal Cases. Acheson, Viscount tiillon, W. D. Pechell. A glionby, H. A. Graham Sir J. R. G. G. R. Angerstein, John G rattan , Peel, Colonel H. Peel, W. Y, Bagshaw, John G rey, Sir G. Pelham, C. A. W. Barnes, E. G u ll y, J. Pigot, R. ett, Hon. Baldwin, Dr. H ar di nge, Sir H. Plunk R. Barnard, E. G. H ar d y, J. Po'Wigtonunt Barron, H. W. H ay, Sir A. 1,, Pollock, Sir F. , Visco Beckett, Sir J. Heathcoat, J. Ponsonby, Hon. W. Blackburne, J. Hector, C. J. Potter, R..: Blunt, Sir C. Herbert, Hon. S. Praed, W. - M. Bowes, J. Hutt, W. Pryme, G. Bowring, Dr. Ingham, Robert Rice, T. S. Brady, Denis C. Jephson, C. D, 0. Roche, NV. Bramston, T. W. Latouchere, Ei. Rolfe, Shift. M. Bridgman, Hewitt Lemon Sir C. Rundle, J. Brotherton, J. Lenr.aril, T. B. Russell, Lout John Bruce, C. L. C. Lc:nnox, Lord G. Searlett, Hon. R. Buckingham, J. S. Lennox, Lord A. Sharpe, General Burton, H. Lincoln, Lord Sheldon, E. Butler, Hon. P. S. Lister, E. C. Sinclair, Sir G. Byng, George Lushington, C. Smith, R. J. Campbell, Sir John Lushington, Dr. Cave, Otway Lynch, A. H. Stanley, Lord Steuart, R.' Cavendish, Hon. C. M‘Taggart, John Strickland,‘Sir G. Chapman, H. L. Mangles J. Talbot, J. H. Clietwynd, Captain Marjoribanks, S. Tatteredoms.on, C. P. H. W. , Clements, Lord Methuen, P.Th Clerk, Sir G., B ar t. M orpeth, Viscount Thompson, Colonel Codrington, Sir E. N agle, Sir R. Thorneley, Crawford, W. S. O'Brien, NV. S. Trevor, A Thomas Crawley, S. O'Connell, D. Tulk, Charles A. Duncombe, T. S.; O'Connell, M. Tynte, C. J. K. Evans, G. O'Connell, J. Tyrrell, Sir J. Ewart, W. O'Connell, M. J. Wallace, 'lt. Fergus, John O'C onnor Don , Walpole, Lord Fergusson, Sir R. C. O'Ferrall, R. H. Warburton, H. Fitzsimon, C. O'Loghlen, M. Wagon, 11., Fitzsimon, N. P a l mers t on, Viscount Wilde, T. I. ort, John Parnell, Sir H. Williams, W. Gaskell, J. M. Parrott, J. Wortley, Hon. J. S. MINORITY, Goulburn, H. Hall, B. Heron, Sir R. Hope, H. T, Humphery, J, Inglis, Sir P. H. Lawson, A. LeilYry, A. I efroy, Or. T. Maclean, D. Mahon, Lord Nichol, J. Perceval, Colon I Archdall, General Barneby, John Blackstone, W. S. Buller, Sir J. Y. Cartwright, W. R. Chandos, Marquis of Chve, E. B. Cripps, J. Divett, E Dundas, G Egerton W. T. Fector,John Minet Goring, H. D. Plumptre, J. P. Poulter, J. S. Price, Samuel Grove Sibthorp, Colonel Somerset, Lord G. Trench,'Sir.Fretleric k Trevor, Ho n. G. it- Weyland, Major It. VVrottc sley, Sir J. B. Ur vv ine Z .rq '7' FTV 71471\70 ed), who voted that all Houses of Parliament submitted to his Ma should be inspected by the Building Com name such Estimates as the Architects mi nish. PFTV 1 the Plans for the two ljesty's Commissioners Rittee, who s h ou ld las ° ight be willing to fur- Against the motion ............ For the motion . ................ Majority ...... 'Fleming,. J.. Forbes, W. Gaskell, J. M. Gore, W. 0. Haltord, H. HeAheoat, J. Hume, Joseph Johnstone, A. Kirk, P Leader, J. T. Lefroy, A. Lefroy, Dr. V. :Lewis, W Lister, E. C. * Maunsell, T. P. Pelham, C. A. Pryme, G. ....... 122 . ..... 50 -72 Praed, W. M. Potter, R. Rundle, John Sheldon, E. R. C. Sinclair, Sir G. Smyth, Sir G. IL Thompson. Colone Tulk, C. A. Villiers, C. P. Wakley, Thomas Walter ' J. Walker, IL Yorke, E. T. Aglionby, H. A, Angerstein, John Balfour, T. Barnard, E. G. Bateson, Sir R. Blake, M. J. Bowrmg Dr. Bodkin,John James Brotherton, J. Brownrigg, J. S. Buckingham, J. S. Coote, Sir C. Crawford, W. S. Eaton, Richard J. Elphinstone, Howard Evans, G. Fielden, J. TELLRES. Hawes, B. O'Brien, W. S. CAItLOW ELECTION.—The Comrnittee appointed on Tuesday n i g h t b y t h e House of Com: the cond uc t of Mr. O'Conn e ll, relatin mons to inquire into to the l a t e e l e ction for th e C ounty o f Carlow, will mer': on Friday next , at twe lve o'clock. I t is expected the Ce: , nmittee will b e an open on e, inqui r y i s conc l uded, ule but that th e publication of e' ;nee will be prohibit e d unt il the Lord and Lady William Bentinck have arrived in town from Paris, it is sP2,il that General Cordova suffers dreadfully from a e,ancer in the tongue, which causes him such agony, that Ile frequently rolls upon the ground. The Pope held a Consistory on the Ist, at which he appointed three Cardinals and twenty-five Bishops. He wag so good as to give away a Pallium for a patriarch of Antioch, and to favour with prelates several districts which have no par ticular affection for his Holiness. Among the creations is that of Prince Frederick Von Schwartzenburg, who is made Arch bishop of Salzburg, though but in his 26th year. He has ob tained a dispensation for this irregularity, and, we doubt not, for sufficient reason. the Dan u b e . The ice i s b eg i nn i ng to break up on LATE SUICID E IN LONGFORD. —Various causes are assigned for the self-murde r of Mr. Jessop, High Sheriff of Longford, which took place on Monday morning, It is stated among other things, that his acceptanc e of the office was used as an Incessant topic of taunt against the unfortunate gentle man, by the more violent Conservative s of that county, Wile represented it as a surrender of principle and a degradation to accept any thing from the present Governmmt. It is certain that the appointment was in abeyance for several weeks, and that the Lord Lieutenant deemed it necessary to assure him self of Mr. Jessop's political neutrality before nominating him to the office. The deceased was a young man, and heir to a splendid fortune. MARGATE, FEB. 16.---A large windmill, the pro perty of Mr. Goodyer, which stood on the cliff adjoining the town, was discovered to be on fire yesterday monling at five o'clock. The mill, which was constructed of wood, burnt with fearful rapidity, casting a dreadful glare over the town, and the water at the foot of the cliff; it wag entirely destroyed, as well as thiry quarters of wheat which it contained. The orgin of the fire has not been discovered, and we regret to say, that it is generally believed to be the work of an ineendie.ry. A woman named Ann Liddell was on Thursday l a st committed for three months' imprisonment at the House of Correction, Brighton, for telling fortunes. It anears she has for a long time been in the habit of imposing or, the credulity of servant maids and silly females, and has 'idtherto mana ged to elude detection. On the present occas,:ion she appeared ex tremely penitent and sentimental, and lexcited much merriment in the office, by exclaiming, whet , . sentence was pronounced, " Thank your Worship, I hope it will be a warning to me. SUICIDE.-011 Wer.l.besday afternoon, about four or five o'clock, e, young woman Kimber, servant to Lord Francis Egert, o n, of Oatlands, threw herself into the lake in the grounds, and was drowned. A labourer on the premises saw ier rush into the water, and ventured into the lake as far as he could with a view of rescuing her, but being no swim mer he was obliged to procure assistance, and after some time the deceased was got out, but quite dead. It is singular that a man in his Lordship's service, three or four weeks ago, was accidentally drowned in the same spot, the punt in which he was fishing having upset. This makes the third death in Lord F. Egerton's establishment in about five weeks, viz., two by drowning, and one from natural causes.— Windsor Express• DEATH OF A FAMOUS WATERLOO HERO.-- On the 12th of February died at Strathfieldsaye, of old age, " Copenhagen," the horse which carried the Duke of Wel lington so nobly on the field of Wate r l oo . H e was f oa l e d about the time o f the Wattle of C open h agen , f rom which b e got his name, and was remarkable for gentleness and spirit united, He lea an eye some years before his death, and has 1;4 tleen used by the Noble owner for any purpose during the last ten years. By the orders of his Grace a salute was fired over his grave, and thus he was buried, as he had lived, ,with military honours. This horse has long been a g re at at traction to strangers, who were accustomed to feed him eve[ the rails with bread, and the Duke himself preserved Itn especial regard for him, which cannot be wondered a t upon considering that he b ore hi m f or 16 h ours safe througli the grandest battle that h as occurre d i n t h e hi story of the world- The late amiable Duchess was likewise particularly attached to him, and wore a bracelet made of his hair, TELLERS. Goulburn, Mr, Serit- Wilmot, Sir Eardlei